UNDER THE WIRE
1994

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close Guantanamo

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since i'm out one thought pursues me

faces that i left behind

i can go nowhere in freedom

when i know you're still inside

& i said i'd give you notice

let you know i'm still alive

so i came to drop these feeble lines

under the wire

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i'll be back with word from outside

i'll be back with hints of hope

carrying some things you've asked for

slipping through the guarded zone

i'll come when the night is moonless

& when there's rain to blur the lights

just hope you'll get a chance to check

under the wire

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some day

i'll see you 

some day some day some day

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here no god provides for answers

my god is a helpless one

he can only cry when we cry

cut the light when a child is gone

leaving us behind in darkness &

disbelief

to dull the mind

lord i'm looking for salvation

under the wire

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since i'm out i live in anger

sleepless nights i toss & turn

i can't take this any longer

don't think they'll ever learn

change this bloody view of vultures

to the promised paradise

until they do i'll hide this broken heart

this faithless heart

under the wire

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i'll be back with word from outside

i'll be back with hints of hope

carrying some songs you've asked for

slipping through the guarded zone

i'll come when the night is moonless

& when there's rain to blur the lights

just hope you'll get a chance to check

under the wire--under the wire--under the wire

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under---the wire

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Barbed wire, or even more cruel, the kind with the razorblade things in it - is it meant to keep people out or in? 
There must be a lot of that junk all around the world....